My TREDFOR Experience!!!

My TREDFOR experience had its ups and downs and I never really expected that kind of TRED experience. First of all I expected this TREDFOR class to be a bit boring, wherein there's lots of lectures about the symbols in the wedding, marriage and won't go to the topic of sex. It was an interesting road to take this term and I was really glad that I took this class while I was taking my GENDERS class because some of the things about sex that was talked about in TREDFOR is not surprising anymore and I won't be judging or be limited when it comes to the lectures. 

The Good Samaritan

First of all we started with the different Gospel that related to our topics and would lead to the topic of marriage and vocation. From there I thought that the whole class would be like that wherein it's pure lecture about Gospels and religious stuff but then we started to talk about relationships when we started to watch "I Do."

"I Do" was a really cool movie and I actually learned a few things in that movie. The value of love and life in a relationship and maturity. This is also the point where I started liking to watch Filipino movies especially movies where Enchong Dee starred in. Anyways, that movie was a really good movie on the value of marriage because it not just always about the wedding but it's about the relationship that you would be starting with. It also shows the value of the family and the love a family should have. I also tells the tale of maturity which is one of the things that I'd admired in that film. This film actually reminded me of my cousins because they married because the wife got pregnant with his baby. But I see my cousin in the end of film because even if they married because of the pregnancy I can see how they love each other so much and now they have another son. 

I Do

My Family Photo with my Grandparents

We then went to the actual topic of marriage, family and relationship. Here I actually started to have interest in the class and the stories our professor told us. Then one of the most interesting lessons I would not forget was the genogram where we checked the relationship of each one in the family and how it affected the growth of the person and how it also affect the person when it eventually comes to his/her relationship with others. I actually learned a lot about my family when we reached to that topic because I started to ask questions to my parents about the their family (who were they close to, and what was their life when they were children) and see how some of their stories reflects the way I treat my siblings and relatives. I also realize how some of my attitude, behavior, and actions are the somewhat the same with my parents and theirs the same with my grandparents and etc. I actually enjoyed this topic because it really involves looking at my family at a different point of view and really appreciate what I grew up with. 

The topic of family is really an important topic for me and I'm really thankful that we covered so much in that topic because I grew up with a family that really supported each other even through our difficulties and I could really say that we are a close family because we really wait for each other whenever it's dinner time and we go to our grandparent's house every Sunday for dinner with the family. I value this topic so much because right now our family is going on its rocky road because my sister's in the US for school and my brother hardly ever goes home because of his extracurricular activities and I live in taft now and only go home for the weekend. It's a bit rocky because we don't communicate that much anymore and our relationship with our parents is not as open as before and just remembering the values and importance of family in our lessons I actually wanted to do something about it because I don't want to be that family wherein we started so close and then we don't communicate anymore except for a birthday greeting or holiday greeting in facebook. As the youngest, I don't really know what to do but to be the first to initiate the communication between each in our family. For now it's a start. 

So in the end, this TRED experience was a really interesting experience because I've learned a lot of things I've realized a lot of things during the class and I'm really thankful in learning these lessons that we've learned in the subject. I know that most of the lessons I remembered is all about marriage because since I was young I always dream of marrying someone I really love. Let's say I am a romantic ever since then and this class helped me realize a lot of things that I should know before settling down. And I actually am in a way thankful that I don't have a boyfriend yet and I'm taking this class because it helped me realized a lot of things about relationships, not just marital relationships but also romantic relationships, friendship and our relationship with the family.